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| 26d0626 | The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves," Gilles Deleuze explains, "but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, the.. | Michael Hardt | ||
| 9c1c260 | Y ahora contestame: ?que tengo que hacer para que vuelvas a reirte como antes? Porque haria cualquier cosa por escuchar de nuevo ese sonido concreto. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 0ce41a2 | La vida eran instantes, fotografias que se quedan en nuestra memoria, palabras sueltas que nos guardamos incluso sin saber por que. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 340b13f | No existe futuro sin pasado. Olvidar no es superarlo. Olvidar es de cobardes. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 4ee1830 | Siempre hubo algo en su piel, en la forma de tocarme, de mirarme, de sonreirme, que conseguia deshacerme por dentro, romper la coraza que construi para el resto del mundo. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 3bd36f9 | La muerte es asi, te pilla desprevenido, te zarandea y se va dejandote con una sensacion de dolor y vacio tan intensa que, en ese instante, uno ni siquiera es capaz de pensar en las personas que se han marchado. Es un escudo protector, la unica forma de seguir avanzando en el dia a dia como si no acabase de suceder algo que ha hecho temblar el suelo sobre el que caminas. Pero despues el tiempo pasa; dias, meses, anos. Pestaneas y te das cue.. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 6589d1b | Una manana te levantas y tienes todo lo que deseas en la palma de tu mano y al dia siguiente no eres capaz de encontrar una miserable razon para seguir adelante. Una manana eres feliz y otra no. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 2af0d1a | Soy incapaz de fingir que no estoy deseando ponerme en pie y rodear esta puta mesa y besarte hasta que me obligues a parar. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 68a9a9a | Supongo que no todas las historias son una linea recta, algunas estan llenas de curvas y a veces no sabes que vas a encontrar cuando tomas cada giro. Hay tramos mas dificiles, esos en los que cuesta caminar, cuando te rompes y debes llevar la carga de los pedazos en las manos. Pero todo pasa. Aprendes a avanzar y a limar las aristas de esos errores que pesan. Tambien aprendes a desprenderte de aquello que un dia te aporto y ya no. O que las.. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 7cba05a | Para mi es un mundo. Un antes y un despues. Un todo. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 1550b8a | One moral of this little story might be that once you've burned a bridge with lies, it may be that nothing short of divine intervention can rebuild the relationship and create a positive result. | Tom Morris | ||
| 2b40c67 | BUYING OFF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS Where are the environmentalists? For fifty years, they've been carrying on about overpopulation; promoting family planning, birth control, abortion; and saying old people have a "duty to die and get out of the way"--in Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm's words. In 1971, Oregon governor and environmentalist Tom McCall told a CBS interviewer, "Come visit us again. . . . But for heaven's sake, don't c.. | Ann Coulter | ||
| 9f3f37c | just for today, i'll focus on the people i'm with. . . . In this day and age, it's astonishing to see how many people feel that it's not rude to ignore the people they're with while they talk on their phones to other people who aren't even there. When we start focusing on someone who isn't with us, we send a message to the people who are with us that they aren't as important as those other people, and that what I have to talk about .. | Tom Walsh | ||
| d5182d7 | Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 69bfac3 | Today, I am glad that I'm me--I'm glad that I was born who I am, that I've learned what I've learned, and that I've become who I am. I am happy and grateful for my life, and I shall not waste time comparing it with the lives of others, for I am I, and I am very glad of that fact! | Tom Walsh | ||
| b4e6325 | One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. -Sophocles | Tom Walsh | ||
| cc2bdf9 | The world never lacks beauty. We sometimes lack the awareness necessary to notice and appreciate it. | Tom Walsh | ||
| a14e05b | We often spend tons of time trying to get people to believe the things that we believe, because we think it will be better for them. We try to convince others that our religious or political views have more validity than theirs do, for we think that we're doing them a favor by steering them in the right direction. But each of us has our own unique way of looking at this world of ours, and it's important that we accept and respect the fact.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 3898528 | Thinking ahead often seems to be a lost art. Many people are so caught up in instant gratification that they never stop to think about the long-term effects of some of their actions. They also don't see the connections between today's actions and tomorrow's results--and this causes an awful lot of pain and frustration in life. Whatever I do today, I should be aware of the possible effects--negative and positive--that can show up in the f.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| dfd04aa | Bibb Steam Mill Company also introduced to the county the ruthless form of industrial slavery that would become so important as the Civil War loomed. The mill acquired twenty-seven male African Americans, nearly all strapping young men, and kept them packed into just six small barracks on its property. The Cottingham slave cabins would have seemed luxurious in contrast.51 The founders of Bibb Steam, entrepreneurs named William S. Philips, J.. | Douglas A. Blackmon | ||
| 05306a7 | Free speech is one of the core values in a democracy and it should be championed with a vengeance. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| e223abc | Mill is particularly concerned that minority opinions should not be silenced just because they are held by very few people. Unfashionable ideas have potential value for the whole of humanity, even if only held by one person: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 05b1ae2 | One reason why false and offensive speech is permitted in most liberal democracies is precisely because the best answer to bad speech is good speech, rather than censorship. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| bf9aa80 | Mill sets out several related arguments for protecting freedom of speech, not just from oppressive government intervention, but also from social pressures. Underlying them all are the assumptions that (a) truth is valuable, and (b) no matter how certain someone is that they know the truth, their judgement is still fallible: they might still be wrong. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 794a6cc | The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what time we have. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| f4b0128 | Sartre explained what he meant by the anguish of choice through the true story of a student who had come to ask his advice during the war. This young man had to make a very difficult decision. He could either stay at home to look after his mother; or he could run off and try to join the French Resistance and fight to save his country from the Germans. This was the most difficult decision of his life and he wasn't sure what to do. If he left.. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| f220bf8 | Free speech does indeed cause hurt--but there is nothing wrong in this. Knowledge advances through the destruction of bad ideas. Mockery | Nigel Warburton | ||
| a7e08f4 | Muitas das actividades humanas adquirem o seu significado pelo facto de serem irrepetiveis. Fazemos escolhas, tomamos decisoes que dao forma as pessoas em que nos tornamos. A nossa satisfacao pela experiencia imediata do padrao de luz e sombra numa floresta decorre, em parte, do facto de ser um efeito passageiro que podemos nunca mais voltar a ver. A nossa mortalidade faz-nos dar valor ao presente porque podemos nao ter um futuro. O padrao .. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 960127b | If the view is correct, then humanity misses the opportunity to exchange truth for error. If, however, the view is misguided, then we forfeit an opportunity to reinforce truth through its collision with error. Every opinion has value for us either because it is true, or else because, though false, it reinforces the truth and contributes to its emergence. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| f8b17fc | Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 8e2d8a1 | If you only know your own side of a case, then your belief is likely to be inadequate. You need to be able to refute counter-arguments to your position otherwise you aren't justified in your belief even if it happens to be true. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| fcf9253 | If we silence those who utter falsehoods, we run the risk of becoming dogmatic, of believing without understanding, or feeling passionate about the evidence supporting our beliefs. We also run the risk that such false beliefs will be given greater credence by the very fact that they are suppressed rather than openly refuted. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 62d19a1 | Thomas B. Costain, Herman Wouk, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Kenneth Roberts, Edna Ferber, Sholem Asch, Ben Ames Williams, Frederic Wakeman, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Irwin Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Hamilton Basso, and, of course, Samuel Shellabarger. | Samuel Shellabarger | ||
| 98d2840 | Honor Is Like the Hawk . . . For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise . . . and step into the shadow now without complaint. --Rorschach's journal, | William Irwin | ||
| d4b3343 | Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18" | William Irwin | ||
| d2bdb49 | a famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster." | William Irwin | ||
| 99a36b3 | Atrocitus: You believe fear to be the most powerful force in the universe? Fear is inaction. Fear is hiding away. Fear is cowering and begging. Rage is action. Rage is spilling blood. Sinestro: Rage is uncontrollable. | William Irwin | ||
| 4f24930 | two of the most fascinating yet troublesome topics in moral philosophy--forgiveness and redemption--issues that must be dealt with together. Without forgiveness there can be no redemption, and forgiveness that does not grant redemption is hollow. | William Irwin | ||
| 310b21c | the poet William Irwin Thompson wrote: "When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before." For" | Tom Ryan | ||
| 8d23b12 | Kant stated simply enough, "[Punishment] must always be inflicted upon [the criminal] only because he has committed a crime."7 Punishment shouldn't be meted out for the criminal's own good, for example, for reformation or rehabilitation. This would be treating him like an animal, like a dog. Also, punishment shouldn't be handed out for the good of society, such as for security, deterrence, or crime prevention or any other desirable end. The.. | William Irwin | ||
| 28e01af | In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call 's Rules. We had all been using 's Rules for about three or four years before told us what the rules were. | laboratory linus-pauling pauling pauling-s-rules science x-ray x-ray-crystallography | J.D. Bernal | |
| 2ace62c | chemistry freedom linus-pauling pauling physics science william-astbury william-thomas-astbury x-ray-crystallographer | J.D. Bernal | ||
| 588383d | I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilard proposes to submit to you," Einstein wrote. "The terms of secrecy under which Dr. Szilard is working at present do not permit him to give me information about his work; however, I understand that he now is greatly concerned about the lack of adequate contact between scientists who are doing this work and those members of your Cabinet who are responsible .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bd0fe4a | So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder--the famed double helix. | double-helix francis-crick james-watson linus-pauling molecular-structure nucleic-acids | Sam Kean |